TY  - BOOK
AU  - Quairel,Françoise
TI  - Responsible but Not Accountable: Analysis of the Standardization of Environmental and Social Reports
PY  - 2004///.
							
N1  - 54
N2  - We use the two main theoretical perspectives analyzing traditional accounting disclosure : the firm as a nexus of contracts and agency theory on the one hand, and neo-institutional and legitimacy theory on the other, in order to assess the environmental and social reporting practices and the main international standardization process : Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). Through the accounting perspective, we analyze the standard-setting process and its actors, the stakes and limits of the conceptual framework and the report content ; we highlight the ambiguity of the role played by these reportings and their targeted users. From a technical point of view, this analysis provides evidence that GRI guidelines have to be strongly improved to become close to “generally acceptedâ€? accounting standard. From a political point of view, GRI appears as a private standardization institution promoting a framework for voluntary sustainability reporting faced with the risk of stronger disclosure requirements
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-accounting-auditing-control-2004-1-page-7?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
ER  -